nawi – Exploring Australia's Indigenous Watercraft

Rex Greeno presented a paper on his canoes the nawi Conference – 30 May - 1 June 2012 –  in Sydney and held at the Australian Maritime Museum  ... Click here to read more

Tasmanian Bark Watercraft

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"In May 2012, the Australian National Maritime Museum will host a two-day national conference on Australian indigenous watercraft, entitled Nawi - Exploring Australia's indigenous watercraft. Nawi is an Aboriginal word recorded by early colonists to describe the bark canoes that plied Sydney Harbour. This first major conference on the watercraft of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ...  This conference aims to explore and document this significant area of more than 40,000 years of Australia's maritime history. From the bound bark and reed canoes of Tasmania, the flat bark canoes of the Murray-Darling, to the fan-shaped Bardi rafts of north-western Australia and the double outriggers of Torres Strait, the conference will be an important and vibrant exploration of the wonderful array of traditional craft, their continuity and revival."

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